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Wells honors mom's request, belts home run

NEW YORK -- Mariners left fielder Casper Wells got a Mother's Day request from his mom on Sunday morning. Nothing big, just if he could provide a little something special to remember when she and the rest of the family drove the two hours from Schenectady in upstate New York to see him play at Yankee Stadium.

"She said, 'Hit a home run for me,'" said a grinning Wells after his team's 6-2 victory. "Like that's an easy thing to do. I was thinking, 'That's kind of a big request. How about a single or a couple knocks?'"

But Wells indeed delivered the long ball, driving a sixth-inning pitch by Andy Pettitte high off the right-field foul pole for a two-run shot that provided his team a 4-1 lead. It was his first home run of the year.

And for good measure, Wells drove in another run in the ninth with an infield single, with the day's final run scoring as well on a throwing error by Yankees reliever Clay Rapada.

Wells, like most of the Mariners, wore pink wristbands throughout the game as part of Major League Baseball's breast-cancer awareness program.

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YORK -- Mariners left fielder Casper Wells got a Mother's Day request from his mom on Sunday morning. Nothing big, just if he could provide a little something special to remember when she and the rest of the family drove the two hours from Schenectady in upstate New York to see him play at Yankee Stadium.

"She said, 'Hit a home run for me,'" said a grinning Wells after his team's 6-2 victory. "Like that's an easy thing to do. I was thinking, 'That's kind of a big request. How about a single or a couple knocks?'"

But Wells indeed delivered the long ball, driving a sixth-inning pitch by Andy Pettitte high off the right-field foul pole for a two-run shot that provided his team a 4-1 lead. It was his first home run of the year.

And for good measure, Wells drove in another run in the ninth with an infield single, with the day's final run scoring as well on a throwing error by Yankees reliever Clay Rapada.

Wells, like most of the Mariners, wore pink wristbands throughout the game as part of Major League Baseball's breast-cancer awareness program.